(travala.com) Add Monero as a supported payment method

This proposal is about adding XMR as a payment option to https://travala.com/

Travala appears to be the most well positioned company to bring cryptocurrency adoption to the travel booking space right now.

There are only a few select places where accomodation could be purchases with BTC (xmr.to), including travala, but it seems to me that the sooner we start having XMR accepted natively - the sooner we cast a very wide net - the better.

The importance of this to the Monero community is, I hope, self-evident:

The ability to spend XMR at various merchants is essential for the success of Monero. And as we know, Monero is uniquely positioned to take the role of digital cash due to its privacy features.

The form to submit a request to add a coin is here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZJWDen2yZIn2tl_3Dh44FX-Z9AKNAUMU4E41nF_ESn6jeGw/viewform

It seems a bit geared towards centralized projects, but after repeatedly failing to get in touch with travala through other means, I figured that creating the CCS and bringing awareness to this topic would be the way forward.

Undoubtedly they will want a little "incentive" to list XMR, but I do not know how much, or even if it's actually required.

This CCS then serves to discuss the receptivity of the community to engaging with travala.com for the purpose of adding XMR as a payment option, and assuming that feedback is positive, whether we are willing to pay some amount of XMR to see it happen.

NACK

I'm not a fan of paying services/exchanges to list Monero. Businesses should choose Monero because it's a project they believe in or because they think it's actually useful money. Furthermore, similar businesses started to accept Monero (like trippki.com) without any incentive. Investing money on a single business just to be listed as a payment option is pointless most of the time IMO.

NACK for this CCS proposal since they should list without incentive. Monero is a large asset with a truly unique utility. The company has more to gain by adding Monero.I filled out the form, but there should be no need to pay.

Thanks for your engagement and filling out the form. As it comes to payment, I'm all with your opinion, there are much better projects to be funded.

Agree with @erciccione and @sgp. There shouldn't be any monetary incentive to list Monero to any private company. Monero has all the support a company can have to integrate Monero to their paying services.

like @lh1008 said, Monero community will support any merchant needing technical help to integrate Monero, but incentive them is not the way we are.

mentioned in merge request !72 (closed)

Closing due to negative sentiment/lack of support.

closed

https://twitter.com/travalacom/status/1167337877606256640